I've have finally put Vellum to rest and put together a new Django powered Blog over Christmas.

Nothing too fancy, the only real feature of note is the Recaptcha powered captchas for which I used this article as a rough guide. A fair bit of time was wasted attempting to use Django's COMMENTS_APP setting to customize Django's comments app to use the captcha, before I realized that COMMENTS_APP is not merely undocumented as the Django docs claim, but actually not working either.

Hopefully now I have finally updated the software Ill get back into the habit of writing regularly as well